[Hugs-users] Hugs98-plus-Sept2006

[Ross Paterson]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 07:20:41PM +0000, dfeustel at mindspring.com wrote:
> I have now determined to my satisfaction that Hugs98-plus-Sept2006 has
> initialization problems concerning Prelude.hs and the use of the -P option.
> These problems may be peculiar to the port of Hugs to OpenBSD. In any event
> I have started poking around with gdb to try to figure out what's going on.
> (I actually can induce hugs to recognize the various prim functions that
> I initially had trouble with, but it's clear that Prelude processing does
> not work exactly as documented.)

I guess that you're trying to add /usr/lib/hugs/packages/hugsbase/Hugs
to the search path.  This isn't supposed to work, because that directory
isn't the root of a module hierarchy: each file X.hs in there contains
a module Hugs.X, not X.  It's the parent of that directory that is a
module hierarchy, and it's already in the search path.

If you're determined to use these prim* functions (though you shouldn't
because they're internal, and there are Haskell 98 equivalents of each
of them), you can approximate the pre-2002 Hugs Prelude with

	Hugs> :m Hugs.Prelude
	Hugs.Prelude> primMaxInt
	2147483647

There are no guarantees that it will work in the future, though.